Will we keep up with growth?

Published: Friday, April 9, 2004 at 4:30 a.m.

Last Modified: Friday, April 9, 2004 at 12:00 a.m.

To The Editor: It's not autos, I-26, shopping centers and urban sprawl; these are all symptoms. The increase in population is the real cause. Eighty million in the last 30 years.

We should have had many of the new fail-safe nuke plants by now. The area for drilling in Alaska is not pristine mountains as shown to the public on TV, but a vast coastal wasteland where no one ever goes.

Kerry said he would drill everywhere. The environmentalists would have us go back in time to a so-called simple life but we would still be engulfed by the ever increasing population and not solve the problem.

Oh, the ice is melting. Oh!!! When did it start to melt? Thousands of years ago. It just didn't start in the industrial age. Why did the ozone hole over the South Pole close up? It just may be it has been coming and going for thousands of years.

What about greater CO2 levels? That creates faster plant growth and they give off what? Oxygen!

We must move forward and meet the needs of our people. The stumbling blocks are those who think they can stop growth.

<p>To The Editor: It's not autos, I-26, shopping centers and urban sprawl; these are all symptoms. The increase in population is the real cause. Eighty million in the last 30 years.</p><!-- Nothing to do. The paragraph has already been output --><p>We should have had many of the new fail-safe nuke plants by now. The area for drilling in Alaska is not pristine mountains as shown to the public on TV, but a vast coastal wasteland where no one ever goes.</p><p>Kerry said he would drill everywhere. The environmentalists would have us go back in time to a so-called simple life but we would still be engulfed by the ever increasing population and not solve the problem.</p><p>Oh, the ice is melting. Oh!!! When did it start to melt? Thousands of years ago. It just didn't start in the industrial age. Why did the ozone hole over the South Pole close up? It just may be it has been coming and going for thousands of years.</p><p>What about greater CO2 levels? That creates faster plant growth and they give off what? Oxygen!</p><p>We must move forward and meet the needs of our people. The stumbling blocks are those who think they can stop growth.</p><p>Lowell Jarrett</p><p>Hendersonville</p>